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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-15
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Lancaster Jail wa empty all of last
month.
The Baptist church at Union, G.. H., is
being thoroughly repaired.
- Anderson farmers are beginning to
complain of an over abundance of rain.
Col. Henry Buist, one of the leading
lawyers of Charleston, died in that city on
Thursday.
The negroes who left Union county last
winter for Arkansas have been heard from
and they are anxious to return.
MI. j. w. Perry, of Statesville, n. c.,
has been called to the passionate of the
Baptist Church at Ridge Spring, Edgeield
county.
1.-the Barnwell kaolin syndicate has re-
Gently disposed of one-half of their interest
in their chalk deposit for 500, 900, the first
cost of which was S., 900. i#s
The Methodists Of Lancaster are talk
ing about building q new church. Apron
inent member. offers to start a subscription
for that purpose with $500.
The surveyors running the second line
of the Georgia, Carolina and Northern rail-
road have just passed Abbeville. The
new line runs through the town and gives
some of the private dwellings quite a close
shave.
In the Court of sessions at Walterboro,
last Friday, before Judge Hudson, Caesar
White, colored, was tried and found guilty
of the murder of E.. A. Morgan. He was
sentenced to be hanged on the 18th Of
August.
On Tuesday of last week, Columbia
township (Richland county, voted on the
proposition to vote a subscription of $4,000
in aid of the Columbia, Newberry and
Laurens Railroad. The vote was 512 for
subscription to IS against it.
the hard storm of last Wednes-
day afternoon, a boltof lightning struck the
Greenville and Laurens telegraph line be-
low Fountain Inn and succeeded in scat
tering itself widely. It splintered ten of
the polessimultaneously leaving them USE
less wrecks.
lake, zeal Georgetown, is COW
cred with dead fish, %cooters, etc. After q
terrific storm a few days ago the waters of
the lake, formerly clear and soft, became
black as ink and bitter as quinine. Am
phibious objects are leaving the lake. The
phenomenon is attracting much attention.
-Winnsboro NeWs: A gentleman whois
a pretty good observer, and from his off,
cial position has an opportunity to see the
crops in the various sections o fthe county,
informs US that he never saw them in bet
ter fix, and that one would be we'll repaid
for his walk to 20 out and see the model
farm of Mr.. A. Williford, just out of town.
The following list shows the decisions
of the Supreme Court as reported in "a
Vol. S.. G. Reports which is the last volume,
and gives the number of cases in which
each Judge has been reversed, confirmed
or modified: Aldrich-afirmed, l revers-
ed, 8; modified l. FraZer-afirmed, 5;
reversed, /. Wallace-afirmed, 9;revers-
ed, 4; modified, 1. Pressley-afirmed, 10;
reversed, 7; modified, l. Cothran, affirm
ed, 7; reversed, 5. Witherspoon-afirm-
ed, 6; reversed, 2. Hudson-afirmed, 10;
reversed, 2; modified 1: Kefshaw-afirm-
ed, 9; reversed, l. Totd affirmed, 81;
reversed, Is; modified, 4.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-15
DIME READING.

There will be a dime reading at the residence
of Judge Witherspoon on Friday night next,
under the auspices of the ladies Of the Presby-
terrain church.. The public generally is invited
to attend.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-15

The Presbyterians of Spartanburg seem
determined to have a new church. They
began to agitate the matter about a month
ago and already have secured subscriptions
amounting to yer five thousand dollars.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-15
THE COTTON A

We have received the June number of the
Cotton Plant, the first issued under the new
management, and we pronounce it an excellent
number. Mr.. A.. M. Howell is the new editor
and he gives ample evidence Of his ability and
fitness for the position. Every farmer in the
State ought to subscribe at once for this admir-
able agricultural journal. Subscriptions re-
ceived by Sam M. Grist, news agent, Yorkville.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-15
COURT,

The sumner term of the Circuit Court for
York county will convene on the first Monday
of July next, his Honor Judge Norton to pre-
side. This will be Judge Norton's first Court
in York county since his elevation to the bench.
From present indications there will be very
little business, either of sessions or civil cases,
before the Court. On yesterday the following
jurors were drawn, by the properly constituted
authority, to serve during the first week of the
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-15
UNTIL LIST, 1888
.CADET JENKINS

The ENQUIRER will be furnished from this
date until January 1st, 1888, for $1.3O.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-15

AN AMBUsHED RAIDERS GUIDE AND
HIS BRAVE WIFE.-Joshua Howard, of
CLASSY Mountain township, upper Green
Vile, appeared before United States Com
missioner Hawthorne, in this city, some
time ago, as a material witness against &C.
cused moonshiners. In his evidence he
incautiously admitted that he had guided
a party of revenue officers in a raid on a
blockade still in his straightforward. While
he was working in his field, near the sum-
NIT of CLASSY Mountain, hoeing corn on
Wednesday, he was fired on by several
men in the woods. One bullet passed
through his left shoulder, another went
through his jaw, lodging behind the left
ear, another cut his right ear, and a fourth
passed through his hat. His wife, who was
working in the same field, dropped her
hoe and charged the concealed assassins,
who fled. She pursued them until she
was exhausted and then returned to her
husband. There is a clue to the assas-
sins, but they have not yet been captured.
The n%eighborhood in which the outrage
occurred is the same in which Deputy
Marshal Elkin was recently shot, and in
which the horses of a raiding party re-
ceived a number of bullets from concealed
persons.-GreenuiWe Ne1cS.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-15

aar On Saturday, Francis Patterson, a
we'll known character of Elmira, n. Y,
and mentioned only as "Blind" Patterson,
received 1892 back pension from the
government, and hereafter will receive
$72 per month. He was stricken blind
while on picket duty.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-15

THE MURDERoUs INDIANs.-The dis
patches from Arizona seem almost a repe-
tition of those which were sent immedi-
ately after Geronimo and his band left
the San Carlos Reservation. There were
less than forty of those murderers, but
they killed more than one hundred settlers
and kept a large part of the United States
army hardat work for many months. The
number of fugitives now on the war path
is said to be seventeen, but it may be
Mexican mountains, Staying settlers and
miners as they 90. 1t was believed that
the removal of the C%hircahuas and Warm
Springs to Florida would insure peace in
the Southwest, but if the character and
impulses of the thousands remaining OF
the reservation were not correctly estimat-
ed the Government has a difficult task be-
fore it.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-15

ANOTHER Observation-Disclosures coun-
ty wants a third railroad, to come from
Gatfney City via Shelby to Cranberry,
passing as a the centre as practicable.
10 the English and New York capitalists,
represented here on Tuesday by Col. S.
Mcdowell Tate, George Richard, of Eng
land, and John l.. Martin, of New York,
we offer $50, 900 upon the terms voted, or
to the Boston syndicate we offer the same
condition. Col. Tate, in May, asked for
rangement with capitalists. That time
having elapsed, he came according to
promise, with capitalists ready y. able and
willing to make the contract to build the
road from the South Carolina line to Vir-
ginia. He was ready then and there to
accept the contract and would not ask for
the bonds until the road was finished in
Cleveland. Here is a business offer for
our county commissioners to accept on the
first Monday in July. Col. Tate's offer is
now awaiting action. So the prospect for
Il road is brightening.-SheWy Aworu.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-15
Total valuation in county,

Other real estate owned in the county by the
railroads named, not included in the above
assessment, is charged against them on the tax
duplicate under the head of real estate.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-15

END OF A NOTED CAsE.-On last Mon
day the Supreme Court of Georgia render
ed a decision in the famous David Dickson
will case: The testator, David Dickson, be-
caolored daughter, Amanda Dickson, and
her children. The Court s~ustains the will
n the decision makes the legatee the
richest negro woman in this country.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-15

va" There were two new cases of yellow
fever at Key West on Monday.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-15
RAILROAD VALUATIONS.

The State railroad board Of equalization met
in Columbia last week and decided upon the
assessment for taxes of the railroads in the
State. There are t~wenty-nine railroads in
the State, and the assessments run from $500
to S14,0 900 per mile. There was but little
change made in last years assessment. Last
year the average assessment per mile was
S6,544, while this assessment makes the av-
erage about $1,000 per mile. There are four
roads assessed this year that had not been built
at the time of the previous assessment.
The following is the assessment of railroad
property in York county:
CHARLOTTE, AND AUGUSTA.
226-1 miles, at $40, 500 per mile, S237 300
Depots, -. .... 1900
Wood and water stations, ...... 1.050
ildin $50
Lots 15O-s24l, $50
Ian AMI CHARLOTTE AIRLINE.
"a miles, at Sl3, 500 per mile ,....Sl02,937
DepOtS 80. ooO
Bulldlngs,".."... ..."."""..." w
CHESTER AND LENoIR.
26 miles, at 80, 500 per mile, "".S $4,000
Buildings, 2,4O0- 'Z,9Vo
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-15
SHOOTING NEAR MAssEY's STORE

Near Massey's Store, six miles east of town,
yesterday afternoon, Jim Jackson, colored, &C
cused Mary Brooks, colored, of stealing his
watch. He went to her, on the public road,
half a mile below the store, gun in hand, and
demanded the watch. She denied having it,
when he fired at her, putting the full load in
her side, arm and breast. She made for the store
for protection, begging %piteously, and he was
close upon her and in the act of discharging the
second barrel of his gun at the woman, when
his wife came running down the road, calling
to him not to shoot, as she had found the watch.
1t seems that his step-child had misplaced it.
He then went home and gave the child a severe
whipping. Then, fearing the consequences OF
the shooting, he fled and has not been captured.
DR.. Hope was called to the assistance of the
wounded woman. He pronounces the wounds
severe, but not necessarily fatal.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-15

NEXT YEAR.-It is evident ever to the
casual observer of politics, that the Re-
publican party is going to make Hercule-
an efforts to elect the next President. The
policy outlined by Mr.. Sherman in his
Springfield speech, the recent utterances
of Mr.. Blaine, and the drift of the entire
stalWart press, leave Nc doubt as to the ag-
g~ressive plan of campaign that will be
adopted by the Republican party. Every
appeal will be made to the interests, pas
sions and prejudices of Republicans to
elect the candidate of their party whether
he be Blaine or Sherman. The Republl-
cans are going to make the most OF their
opportunities, and barrels of money Will
be spent to change the result in the close
States. The labor party and the prohibi-
ton party will be important factors in the
election of 1883.
President Cleveland's administration
has been clean, healthy and vigorous. 1t
has been honest and economical, and all
of the interests of the nation and OF the
people have been protected. His re-elec-
ton is a matter of vital importance not
only to the South, but to the peace and
we'll being of the whole country. We are
satisfied that his administration meets
with approval of good men everywhere,
irrespective of party affiliations, and that
the conservative and intelligent public
opinion of the country favors his re-elec-
ton. But, Notwithstanding the general
approval of President Cleveland's admin
istration, it will require a united Democ-
raey, North and South, to secure his re-
election. Whatever differences may exist
between the members of the party on
economic and other questions; they must
be held in allegiance until the more impor-
tant and momentous question of Demo-
cratic supremacy is secured. We must
agree to stand on the Chicago platform.
This is broad enough and strong enough
to support all good Democrats who profess
fealty to party. 1t is wide enough Tor
free trade Democrats and protection Dem
ocrats-like Carlisle and Hurd, Randall
and Tillman-to stand upon. We viii!
need the active and united support of
every Democrat to r~e.elect President
Cleveland.-Augusta Chronicle.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-15

A Town JARED TO ATOMs.-A st.
Petersburg dispatch of last Friday says:
The town of Venome, in Turkistan, is a
wreck. Its inhabitants refuse the shelter OF
their former he mes and are seeking safety
in open air. Day before yesterday a slight
shock of earthquake was felt, but little
attention was paid to it. Continental pa
pers publish accounts of the disturbances,
but no material damage was reported.
Now the city is almost entirely laid waste;
public buildings and private residences are
lettering and swaying, and there is not a
safe roof in the place. There are a few
houses left standing, but the people can
not be induced to seek shelter in them.
One hundred and twenty persons were
killed and one hundred and twenty-five
more or less injured, half of whom, be-
cause of exposure and lack of medical at
tention, will die. The shocks still contln-
ue at intervals. 1t is almost impossible to
obtain details of the terrible disaster. 1t
is feared that the tale is not half told.
Relief has been sent the stricken populace.
Slight jars are felt throughout the section
of country, but, so far as known, no furth-
er loss of life or property than the above
has occurred.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-15
CHURCH NOTICES.

Baptist-Rev. f. {. Hickson, Rastor. There
will be a Church meeting at Union next Satur-
day, at II o'clock. Preaching at II o'clock Sun
day NOR ming, after which there will be COM
munion. Services at Yorkville at 5 P. NJ.
Sunday-school at 3.45 P. M. Prayer-meeting
this evening at $50 o'clock.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian-Rev. j.
G.. Galloway, Pastor. Services next Sunday at
1870 A. M, and $50 P. M. Sunday-school at
4 P. NJ.
Methodist Episcopal-Rev. W. w. Daniel,
Pastor. Quarterly Conference next Sunday,
on which occasion Rev. A.. S. Cauthen, P. E.,
will be present. Preaching at the usual hour.
Love feast at 8 A. NJ, and communion of the
Lords Supper at the forenoon service. Preach
ing at $50 P. M. Sunday-school at 4 P. M.
Prayer-meeting this evening at $50 o'clock.
Presbyterian-Rev. T. r. English, Pastor.
Services next Sunday at 1890 A. M. and $50
P. M. Sunday-schoola at F. M. Prayer-meet-
ing tomorrow evening at $50 o'clock.
Episcopal-Rev. E. N. Joyner, Rector. sum
day-school at 4.30 P. NJ.
Kings Mountain Mission-Rev. L. A. john
son, Pastor. Services at Philadelphia Church
next Sunday at II A. NJ.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-15

TO TEST THE RAILROAD LAVA
Washington dispatch of Friday says: The
constitutionality of the Interstate Com
merce law is to be tested by the railroads
shortly. The claim will be made that the
act itself is not constitutional, and that
its enforcement adds an additional ground
for the courts setting it aside. No action
will be taken until the commission an
nounces definitely what its policy will be
upon the fourth section of the act. The
alleged illegal manner of execution re-
lates to the titles of the commissioners
to the offices. 1t will be urged that the
commissioners have not been confirmed
by the Senate, and that consequently
their acts are void. The point is made
that the terms of the Interstate Com
merce act itself require that the commits
sioners should have been confirmed by
the Senate before they could act, and that
aside from the terms of that act, inasmuch
as the offices are new offices, and not va
c%ancies, they cannot be filled except by
and with the consent of the Senate. This
point is based upon the provision OF the
Constitution which provides in effect that
the President shall nominate, and by and
with the consent of the Senate, shall ap-
point all officers of the United States
whose appointments shall be established
by law. The railroads which are inter-
ested in this movement are closely united
in the matter, and the list does not, OF
course, include those for which the long
and short haul clause has been suspended.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-15

> Two PLows TO THE MULE.-Farmers
can a Y much time and labor and easily
keep up with their work by following the
plan suggested below: Mr.. Henry c.. Gray,
who farms about five miles from Aiken,
invented it, and he says he wishes every
farmer would try it and see how nicely it
works. He runs two plows to one mule,
removing the singletrees and hitching the
traces directly to the plow-frames Zone to
each.) The mule walks between the rows
Of cotton and the plows turn up the right
hand sides one way and making a short
turn, the other side of the row going back.
Thus double the amount of work is done
in the same time, the only addition being
a hand to run the pillow. Farmers who try
this plan will have no excuse for getting
behind in their work, or letting General
Green" get the best of them.-Aiken
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-15

THE CORNER IN COFFEE BRoKEN.-On
Monday morning the New York coffee
market opened excited and the price went
down nearly 30 per cent, causing q panic
and the failure of several prominent firms.
There are several reasons assigned for the
panic, among which is a heavy decline in
Havre, France, where coffee is largely
dealt in, but the principal cause, accord
ing to competent authority, is the fact that
the Brazilian crop, which was expected to
fall far short of that of 1886, is actually
more than five hundred thousand bags
larger. The crop year ends July l, and
good authorities say that the Brazilian
yield this year will be six million one hun
dred thousand bags.
It is also said that the "boom" was origi-
nally engineered byaNew York and Havre
syndicate, who were wise enough to retire
when they had cleared a profit of y cents
a pound in April last. Then the Brazilian
syndicate took hold of the market, and
have until recently had everything their
own way. The report of the increase of
The crop, the decline in Havre and the
cautious action of the banks, are thought
by many to indicate the speedy collapse
of this gigantic speculation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13
FOREIGN.

JAMES GORDON BENNETT will publish a
newspaper in Paris to be known as the
European Herald. 1t is to be modelled
after the New York Herald.
A DECREE has been issued at Berlin, un-
der the socialist law declaring a minor
state of siege here and prohibiting the
sale on the streets of special editions of
papers.
NEGOTIATIONS between Italy and Francs
for treaty of commerce have been with
out result, the demands of Italy being in
admissible. The Riforma tof Rome), ar
CUES that France will be the loser 6nan-
cially in every way if she refuses the
terms of Italy.
The government has appointed a
commission, headed by the prince of
Wales, Lord Rosebery, and Lord Harting-
ton to promote English and colonial ex-
hibits at the Melbourne exposition.
A GANG of moonlighters attacked the
house Of a farmer named Ribbon. at
Granny Bridge. Kilrush, drove the in
mates out, and leveled the building with
crowbar. They continued the work of
destruction for several hours. Eight ar
rests were made.
CANovAs DED CASTILLO, the Spanish
statesman, has arrived in Paris, where he
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13
WASHINGTON

IT is expected that by Jan. next, near
ly all the graduates OF the Military Acad
envy at Vest Point. now known as sad
ditional" second lieutenants, will be as
signed to companies and will cease to pe
extras.
STATEMENT prepared at the Treasury
Department shows that during the month
the month of September there was a net
increase of $32, $50, 1916 in circulation and
q net increase of $7,264,136 in the
Treasury.
The treasury department has decided
that sawed square pine timber imported
from Canada is dutiable at the rate of
So per thousand feet, instead of at the
rate Of 20 per cent. ad valorem, as asses
sed by the collector at Plattsburg, n. Y.
In relation to the case of United States
Consul Hatfield, of Batavia, Java, whose
arrest by the Dutch colonial officials has
been reported, it is learned at the depart
ment of state that shortly after his arrest
the consul was found to be insane. and
was transferred to the insane depart
ment of the prison. Beyond the fact
that Consul Hatfield was charged general
~ with fraud, nothing is known at the
department of the original cause of his
arrest.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

GEORGE w. CABLE began his lead of
DR.. Meredith's Bible class at fremont
Temple, Boston, last Saturday.
ALGERoN CHARLES Sw1NBURNE, the Brit
isb poet is failing in health, and is lead
ing retired life.
IT is said that brother of Mr.. Phelps,
United States Minister to England, is a
tailor at Grand Forks, D. T.
BISHOP OBERLY is said to be ambitious
to succeed Railroad Commissioner Nor
rison, who is already tired of his posi-
ton.
1T was announced Friday that Governor
Church had suspended three of the
Yankton, D. T., Asylum trustees, Messrs.
Powers, Williams, and Van Tassel.
The last spike, gold one, was driven
Wednesday in the Kansas City. Memphis
and Birmingham Road, at Crews Mill,
Ala. The line will be opened fer bust
ness at once.
DICK ELLIS, a brakeman, whose parents
reside at Franklin Grove, ILL.,, was run
over and killed Wednesday at Auburn
Neb.
AT Cecil Bay, Wednesday, seven bodies
were washed ashore, victims of the recent
storm, who were drowned in the wreck
of the Inflated California.
FIRE destroyed about 100000 feet of
lumber belonging to the Girarj Lumber
Company, of Menominee, Mich, Tues
day, with dockage. The loss will reach
$4,000: insurance, $4,000.
DOUGLAS & STUART's great oatmeal
mill at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was COM
pletely destroyed by fire Wednesday.
The confagration was caused by an ex-
plosion in the elevator leg, probably due
to friction. The losss will reach $11O,-
600; insured for 5000.
The greet losses for September were
$7,937 800, against 100000 during the
same month last year. The aggregate
losses for the first nine months of 1887
are 500, 1o3, 5O0-$1O,OOO,O greater than
for the same period OF 1886.
DURING the morning session of the
American Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions, Wednesday, at Spring
field, Mass, Ex-Governor William B..
Washburn, of Massachusetts, fell dead on
the platform, presumably from apo
plexy.
The widow of the late Senator Matt
Carpenter, with her son and daughter,
has arrived at Waterbury, Vt, from a
years sojourn in Europe, to visit her
father, Ex-Governor Dillingham;, of Wa
terbury. She will then return to her
home in Milwaukee.